Empowering Education - Ira Shor

QUOTES

1.) He urged teachers to encourage students to question their experience in school: "You must arouse children's curiosity and make them think about school. For example, it's very important to begin the school year with a discussion of why we go to school. Why does the government force us to go to school? This would set a questioning tone and show the children that you  trust them and that they are intelligent enough at their own level, to investigate and come up with answers"(Meier 1990).

This is an important to question the children before going into school each year. I remember growing up my dad was talk to me about the importance of my education and why I must go to school. I would ask why are we forced to go to school. However my teachers never raised any of these questions until later in my schooling career. 

2) "Human beings do not invent the themselves in a vacuum, and society cannot be made unless people create it together. The goal, of this pedagogy are to relate personal growth to public life,

by developing strong skills, academic knowledge, habits or inquiry, and critical curiosity about society, power, inequality, and change."

Incorporating this quote to the article is important to remind the reader or teacher that everything taught is reflected onto the society. This is important to remember especially in order to better the world. 

3.)  "Large numbers of students are refusing to perform at high levels. de-moralizing the teachers who work with them. At time, performance strikes become organized resistance to authority, with leadership and articulate demands."

While I was in high school I remember performance strikes being a thing for standardize testing, students wrote petitions and had their parents sign papers allowing them to miss these test. This is similar to what the author is talking about because the students that refused the testing where given detention for not obeying the schools required tests.